People Are Sharing Their Best Work Clap Backs And They’re Hilariously Passive Aggressive

One of the many joys of working in an office is having to deal with passive-aggressive emails from your co-workers. Perhaps they sit right opposite you, or maybe they work in a different office completely, but as long as they’re hiding behind their computer, there’s no limit to the saltiness that they can unexpectedly drop into your inbox.

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DC-based writer and marketing consultant Danielle René (known on Twitter as @DeeRene_) knows all about this, which is why she recently asked people to share their favorite professional clapbacks after tweeting her own go-to comeback phrase for problematic colleagues. Her tweet clearly resonated with people everywhere as many were quick to respond with their own clapbacks, all of them professional yet at the same time surreptitiously sassy. Scroll down to see for yourself. What’s your favorite office comeback? Let us know in the comments below.

As much as language custodians try to pretend otherwise, language is fluid and dynamic. It evolves over time. Old terms become antiquated as new terms become vogue. It's far from a new phenomenon, and it's not unique to any one language. Urban vernacular tends to set the trend nowadays. It starts as colloquial slang, and then it'll be featured in a song or some celebrity will be heard using it, and before long it'll gain mainstream acceptance. The process is even faster now with social media. No amount of pissing and moaning will ever change that. Deal with it.

Funny thing about language, it's always changing. Weird, right? Always evolving. Does the word clapback need to die... or just your approach?
Let's just all start speaking Olde English again, right? Let's just get rid of all synonyms because there are words for it already, right? Get outta here. Fetch never happened (except in a movie), clapback has already BEEN a thing that you were unaware of. Maybe you're just out of touch. I swear some of you snooty intellectual types are worse than children.

Language is a thing, it's a thing that always changes. Funny how it evolves. Does the word clapback need to die... or just your approach?
Let's just all start talking Olde English again, right? Let's just get rid of all synonyms because there are already words for these things. Get outta here.

A "clapback" is not simply a reply or response. It doesn't solely pertain to email either. It's most like a comeback to a rude comment. I think it's a great word/expression, it evokes the visual of a very angry woman up in someone's face, with a very angry response, while making angry clapping at them.

As a student I attended so many courses in which I just wanted to stand up and scream "It is on Blackboard! Learn to read and follow instructions!" Which is probably why I have a degree in education but do not teach.

As much as language custodians try to pretend otherwise, language is fluid and dynamic. It evolves over time. Old terms become antiquated as new terms become vogue. It's far from a new phenomenon, and it's not unique to any one language. Urban vernacular tends to set the trend nowadays. It starts as colloquial slang, and then it'll be featured in a song or some celebrity will be heard using it, and before long it'll gain mainstream acceptance. The process is even faster now with social media. No amount of pissing and moaning will ever change that. Deal with it.

Funny thing about language, it's always changing. Weird, right? Always evolving. Does the word clapback need to die... or just your approach?
Let's just all start speaking Olde English again, right? Let's just get rid of all synonyms because there are words for it already, right? Get outta here. Fetch never happened (except in a movie), clapback has already BEEN a thing that you were unaware of. Maybe you're just out of touch. I swear some of you snooty intellectual types are worse than children.

Language is a thing, it's a thing that always changes. Funny how it evolves. Does the word clapback need to die... or just your approach?
Let's just all start talking Olde English again, right? Let's just get rid of all synonyms because there are already words for these things. Get outta here.

A "clapback" is not simply a reply or response. It doesn't solely pertain to email either. It's most like a comeback to a rude comment. I think it's a great word/expression, it evokes the visual of a very angry woman up in someone's face, with a very angry response, while making angry clapping at them.

As a student I attended so many courses in which I just wanted to stand up and scream "It is on Blackboard! Learn to read and follow instructions!" Which is probably why I have a degree in education but do not teach.